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We’ve always been just the two of us… Dad and I.
My mother died giving birth to me, so my father, Johnny, took care of everything. He prepared my lunches before going to work, made pancakes every Sunday without fail, and around the time I was in second grade, he taught himself how to braid hair thanks to YouTube videos.
My mother died giving birth to me, so my father, Johnny, took care of everything.CHFR
He was a caretaker at the same school as me, which meant I spent years hearing exactly what people thought about it: “She’s the caretaker’s daughter… Her father cleans our toilets.”
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I never cried about it in front of anyone. I kept it to myself at home.
Dad always knew anyway. He would put a plate in front of me and say, “You know what I think of people who make themselves feel important by making others feel small?”
“No, what?”
“Not much, darling… not much.”
And it has always helped in one way or another.
“His father cleans our toilets.”
